Huge price has to pay if any one dares to provke India : Rajnath Singh

Mangaluru, Mar 9: In an stringent warning to Pakistan, Union Home minister Rajanath Singh said "India will not provoke anyone. But if Pakistan continues to encourage, promote and shelter terrorists, then it will have to pay a huge price for it".

Speaking after inaugurating the convention of Shakti Kendra Pramukhs of three Lok Sabha constituencies (Dakshina Kannada, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga) covering four districts on Saturday he said so far country has carried out three strikes against Pakistan in the last five years and everyone knows about the impact of two strikes, and for the third one, the government cannot reveal it.

Terming the third one, (Balakot) airstrike as a targeted mission, he said that it was carried out on specific intelligence input. Referring to some incidents in some parts of the country, targeting the Kashmiri youths, he said that "in this connection the Union Government has already issued an advisory to all state and union territories to safeguard Kashmiri students studying all over India".

He appealed to BJP workers to stand by the Kashmiri students. Referring to coalition government in Karnataka he termed as a kichdi government where the welfare of people has taken a backseat.

"The JD(S) leaders are busy protecting their own chairs". he said.

By 2028 India will be one of the three powerful countries of the world; he predicted Predicting that the BJP would emerge as the single largest party in the world, he said that everyone in the state had contributed to strengthen the organisaiton.

Stating that at present America, China and Russia are the top three powerful nations he said that by 2028, India will enter into the league of top 3 powerful nations.

“We are not doing politics to gain power but to empower our country to make it rich and a superpower. “Some are questioning about Modi’s 56-inch chest. But now it has become 65-inch,” he added.

“Central government has introduced several schemes for the farmers. But the state government is not providing data of farmers to credit Rs 2000 each as first installment under Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Farmers’ loan has not been waived off in the state as the government never bothered about farmers,” he said.

He also referred the economists that India is one of the fastest growing economy in the world."We were in the 9th position in 2014. Now we have reached to 6th position and soon we will reach 5th position,” Mr Rajnath Singh said. (UNI)